EU survey on appliances and right to repair

I have not had an LCD TV fail on me yet

(apart from the one that never worked properly in the first place, replaced instantly.)

Fixed as in until it drifted out again.

You rather obviously have had no experience of tube TVs - or likely just low expectations.

Every wide screen CRT set I ever saw had convergence errors which couldn't be fixed. Which is why widescreen tubes were never used in critical pro applications. An underscanned 4:3 was required to get decent registration.

In article , Dave Plowman (News) scribeth thus

Bet someone had a G6 chassis;?...

Mainly selling and renting TV's there was no money in repairs alone...

And the smaller dealers even sizeable ones didn't have the buying clout that the big chain's and outlets had..

My 14 inch colour redifusion portable, (1980's, made in County Durham ?) failed within a week when the power-on degauss current fried the on-off switch. The shop gave me another new replacemnt without quibble.

only toward the end of their days did repairs become unprofitable.

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When I were a kid, we had a neighbour who had a TV/radio etc repair workshop. No sales - only repairs. Seemed to do pretty well - had a nice new car every other year.

Dunno really i left that trade back in 1986 odd..

Not so, I have a computer monitor with a 12V and a 5V rail external PSU.

What is a "public repair event"?

Nope, I've fixed a few that drifted. One of them drifted twice, the other two only once. I assume the ones that drifted once were due to a component failing, so no more changes occurred.

It's a place where you take faulty equipment and volunteers show you how to fix them or fix them for you, presumably at cost price.

I've never heard of such a thing. My first thought was you were American, then I noticed it's a UK group. Where do these things take place?

That's because people used to keep things running for decades, now we just chuck them out as they're cheaper to buy.

The first TV (a Ferguson) my parents bought in about 1983 (before that they used radio rentals) was still running in my house in 2010, with only one fault - I had to adjust a potentiometer inside it to increase the brightness. I've yet to see an LCD TV last anything like that long. I only gave it away in 2010 as I bought a larger one.

No idea. I've just heard of them on radio programmes like Click. There are also 'maker' events, where people, er, make things. I don't think they are exclusively US.

They certainly are not. I belong to a maker space near here.

And here's an example of a repair event...

I giggled at the photo for two reasons. One, that anyone should need shown how to wire a plug. And two, that they've used a small 20mm glass fuse in place of a proper plug fuse.

And if that flex gets pulled half out due to the cordgrip not being tightened, the earth conductor comes out beefore the other 2.

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That's going a bit far. Does anyone actually deliberately make the earth longer? I just make the cord grip tight in the first place.

And on that subject, before the invention of ELCBs, I reckon that earthing appliances was actually dangerous. Say you're in the kitchen and touch something live, you get a tickle. But have your knee against the earthed washing machine and power goes straight through your heart.